We celebrated Christ the King at St Charles Lwanga Parish in a very special way. We had one mass and it started at 08:00hrs. The procession started from the Parish house and we had three priests Fr. Silvio, Fr. George and Fr. Philip who were accompanied by the Buomba, Stella girls, altar boys and the two tribes which were chosen to represent all the tribes or cultures we have in Zambia. During the procession the two tribes danced according to them.
tradition while the Buomba were singing and beating the drums. The Lozis dressed according to their culture. Every year, as summer gives way to winter the Kuomboka procession is a flurry of vibrant colours, beating drums and chanting voices. Kuombaka is a word in the Lozi language which means to get out of water. All women were dressed in flamboyant traditional silozi dress known as misisi while men were men dressed in siziba.
During glory the Lozi people danced and demonstrated what they do in their culture. The Ngonis dressed in their attire according to their ceremony, the dress code for Ngoni people is animal skin of some sort of all ceremony is celebrated in February, and it is called N’cwala ceremony. N’Cwala means harvest it is an annual traditional ceremony where the Ngoni people of the Eastern Province of Zambia come together during the last weekend of February. It so happens to pay homage to their chief Mpezeni and God for Gift of the first fruits and food. During thanksgiving song, the Ngoni people danced and demonstrated what they do in their culture.
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